Set a culture on c# backend page

Question

I'm trying to set the culture and culture ui in the Page_Load of a .aspx.cs page. I have tried

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA");

and

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("fr-CA");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;

and

Culture = "fr-CA";
UICulture = "fr-CA";

but none of them work. Does anyone know how to set the culture and uiculture?

Thank you!

What did you expect to happen and what did happen? How did you test? — Emond, Sep 23 '14 at 17:44
@ErnodeWeerd I am using resx files which use the current culture to display the page in the required language — starvator, Sep 23 '14 at 17:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '14 at 19:00

I found a solution: override the InitializeCulture. This is what it looks like when I incorporated cookies and use the current cookie to set the language of the page.

protected override void InitializeCulture()
    {

        HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies["CurrentLanguage"];
        if (!IsPostBack && cookie != null && cookie.Value != null)
        {
            if (cookie.Value.ToString() == "en-CA")
            {
               // currently english
                System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-CA");
                System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-CA");
                base.InitializeCulture();
            }
            else
            {
               //currently french
                System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA");
                System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA");
                base.InitializeCulture();
            }
        }
    }

Set a culture on c# backend page

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